Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

DR. J. H. BROWN was born near Crittenden, in Grant County, Ky., December
5, 1845.  He was the son of Larkin and Mary Brown of this county.  His
education was obtained at the public and high school of his own town and
county.  At the age of eighteen years he began teaching, and taught in
the public schools for a period of three years.  He was reared partly 
on a farm, and followed farm life for several years in young manhood.  
He graduated in medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in the spring 
of 1873, and served one year as hospital physician at the Cincinnati 
Hospital. His first year of private practice was at Rushville, Ind., 
after which he returned to Crittenden, and has practiced continuously 
at this place till [sic] the present time.  He is a life long Democrat. 
The doctor was for some time president of the North Kentucky Medical 
Society.  He served for six years as Deputy County Court Clerk of Grant 
County.  In religion he is a Christian, being an elder of the Christian 
Church at Crittenden.  He is also Notary Public of Grant County, and is 
the chief medical examiner of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, and 
the New York Life Insurance Company.  He is surgeon for the C. N. O. & 
T. P. Railroad, and chairman of the Board of School Trustees for the 
Crittenden school district, as well as chairman of the Board of 
Trustees for the town of Crittenden.  September 8, 1881, he was united 
in marriage with Miss Carrie Geier, of Carrollton, Ky., and to this 
union one child has been born, Mary Frederica, one of Crittenden's 
fairest daughters.

Brown Geier
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Carroll-KY OH IN

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